Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to analyse the questions produced by students at Grade 8 of lower secondary school on the basis of the assigned texts in accordance with the cognitive process levels of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. The study employed a basic qualitative research design. The study group consisted of 400 students at Grade 8 attending randomly selected public lower secondary schools in Aksaray, Antalya, İstanbul, İzmir and Kütahya during the second semester of the academic year 2022-2023. In order to obtain the study's data, document analysis was utilized. The students were required to compose six questions from the assigned texts within one class hour, and these questions were evaluated by three field experts using the cognitive process elements of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy. Within the scope of the study, descriptive analysis techniques were utilized to characterize the data collected from students and field experts, while frequency analysis was employed to comprehend the data better. As a consequence of the study, it was found that most of these questions composed by students were at lower cognitive levels and that the students had difficulty in producing questions at higher cognitive level.

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